linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:03:14 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dgc@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:55 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is a slightly different take on the fix for the deadlock in fuse
> with dirty balancing.  David Chinner convinced me, that per-bdi
> counters are too expensive, and that it's not worth trying to account
> the number of pages under writeback, as they will be limited by the
> queue anyway.
> 

Please have a look at this:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/220


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